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Re:PHP 8 by tyingq on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:51AM (#25220999)
"There's a long report on Wordpress and PHP 8 and it's not pretty"

I wonder if that's somewhat on purpose. Part of the remaining stigma with PHP is that people cite bad PHP examples from WP.

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Re:PHP 8 by cstuder on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:56AM (#25221063)
No, I think WordPress being the most installed PHP application on the net warrants the special attention to it.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management

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Re:PHP 8 by tyingq on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:58AM (#25221083)
Not sure I understand. I'm saying the PHP team didn't cede any deprecations to Wordpress this time. Meaning no special attention.
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Re:PHP 8 by cstuder on Thursday November 26, 2020 @11:36AM (#25221392)
Sorry, I missunderstood what you were writing.

Yes, it doesn't look like they took special attention to WordPress when developing PHP 8.

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Re:PHP 8 by BeyondLimits99 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @08:23PM (#25224822)
As a PHP dev this is a really fair comment.

I think the other reason non PHP devs think we are in the dark ages is because when they google it, our documentation looks like it's from 2010. It's a bit of a joke really.

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Re:PHP 8 by samus on Saturday November 28, 2020 @03:44AM (#25236291)
One other thing I always found iffy is the comment section. Why is the information there not reviewed and back-ported into the documentation? Sometimes, as on the page of the `DateTime` class, they actually contain crucial details!
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